I'll Be Happy If...

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Peter Rollins and Michael Gungor talk about happiness and the many ways we seek it out. We may use the tools of religion, belief, work, ideals, pleasure, or others to help us be happy. By breaking down the stories we tell ourselves using nondual thinking and philosophy they seek a deeper understanding of what makes us happy. Peter Rollins is an author, philosopher, storyteller, producer and public speaker. He is the author of The Divine Magician (2015) and The Idolatry of God (2013) among other books. Peter received his PhD in Post-Structural Thought from Queens University, Belfast. You are not alone! This Sunday at 11am Pacific you are invited to join us for The Sunday Thing. Hundreds of liturgists from around the world get together via video. We break into smaller groups to talk and it is such a wonderful time. You are not alone in your doubts, questions, anger, sadness, atheism, theism, or any other thing you are going through. To find out more and to join us on Sunday, go to theliturgists.com

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0:00.0	Our world is built with stories.
0:04.0	Sometimes these stories cause suffering by pulling us apart from ourselves and each other.
0:10.0	The liturgous podcast helps people love more and suffer less by pulling apart the stories that pull us apart.
0:17.0	Today's story, I'll be happy if...
0:21.0	Alright, so we've got Pete Rollins back on the podcast.
0:26.0	One of my favorites and one of our crowd favorites. Welcome back Pete.
0:30.0	Thank you, you're one of my favorites.
0:32.0	Oh, thank you.
0:34.0	I'm excited about hearing your music by the way.
0:36.0	Or can I say?
0:38.0	Yeah, I do. Is that right?
0:40.0	No, thank you. I'm very excited to hear it.
0:42.0	I can't wait to play for you.
0:44.0	I'm just saying that publicly so you have to let me hear it.
0:46.0	Because now I've set it to your out there.
0:50.0	Yeah, your audience. And I've agreed.
0:52.0	Yes.
0:53.0	So last time we talked about scapegoating and how that mechanism of other people being the problem.
1:01.0	And there's like another side of a coin which is that I will be happy if.
1:11.0	So a lot of times we have this externalized problems.
1:14.0	But we also attach on the other side of things, attach our joy, our happiness to some external thing as well.
1:20.0	So if we only could have this, accomplish this, have this relationship, get that promotion, whatever the thing is, then all my internal problems won't be solved.
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